Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.

I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.

Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.

We put the fun back into dysfunctional

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Never run in the rain with your socks on.

Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.

When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

Our passion is our strength.

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

I like to keep my girlish figure

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.